 Petersen co-sponsored bills, including SB 1309, intending to preserve the tax for Virginians in higher income brackets.Petersen also denied ever supporting a 38 cent gas tax increase.He recently explained that he supported the current law which makes it a felony to possess a gun on school grounds, but voted for a bipartisan bill, HB 2535, which gave a limited exception to parents with licensed concealed carry permits who pick up their children at school, for just school driveways.